THE RISE OF A NEW OTTOMAN EMPIRE: THE TRAP OF INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
By Aland Mizell
Kurdish Aspect, CO
Oct 1 2007
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After the collapse of the communism, Fethullah Gulen, the spiritual
leader of the Nur movement in Turkey, ordered his group to immigrate
to the newly independent Central Asian countries. Gulen compared his
followers to being today’s "sahaba," the term referring to the journey
from Mecca to Medina called the Hegira in the year 622, a journey that
also marked the foundation of the Islamic State. After that relocation,
Muhammad set up an Islamic State and instated his rules, for example
forbidding usury and gambling. He implemented his own legal rules and
system of government after gaining economic and military power and then
conquered his birth place, Mecca, the center of a new religion. Until
then Muhammad ordered his follower to cooperate with the Jews, never
confronting them because he knew that the Jews were more powerful
than his followers at that time. During that time Muslims even faced
Jerusalem for prayers; however, after Muhammad’s followers conquered
Mecca, they began facing Mecca. For both Muhammad and Gulen building a
new Muslim community was a precursor to the Islamic state, and both men
merged their religious views with the political goal of following the
law of the Qur’an and not "natural" or human law in the Islamic state.
In 1991, the collapse of the Soviet Union gave Gulen an opportunity to
gain a base among the Turkic states that desperately needed social,
economic, and religious help. Also, Gulen wanted to counter Iran’s
Shia religion in Central Asia, to make an economic investment, and
to build a bridge between the Turkic states and Turkey.
However, after 9/11 Gulen saw another opportunity to expand his empire
beyond the ocean to convert the infidels to Islam and to set up his
dream Ottoman Empire, bringing it back again. Tauted for his claim
to establish ecumentical peace, he sponsors Interfaith Dialogue,
non-government organizations (NGO’s), schools, cultural centers,
conferences, his own newspaper, civic and cultural events, among
many other strategies, using them as a platform that promotes his
ultraconservative Islmaic agenda in the U.S. However, 9/11 helped Gulen
in a tremendous way to teach about Islam because suddenly the words
"peace" and "tolerance" were in vogue and popular. Many Americans
naively do not recognize the fact that as well as being a religion,
Islam is a political, social, and economic sytem that rules all aspects
of life. Today Gulen believes that since the Ottoman Empire ruled
the world for many centuries with peace, he wants to bring it back
again. By creating big lobbies, Gulen moves toward his utimate goal
of dictating American and Western social, political, and economic
policies. He has recruited thousands of teachers and millions of
students while raising billions of dollars in economic support.
Further, Gulen and his followers know how to manipulate the American
democratic laws for their advantage. He believes that the best way
to defeat the enemy is to use the enemy’s wepaon against the enemy.
Today the enemy’s weapon is democratic rule of law. They are taking
advantage of it using it against America and foresee a time when, like
many Muslims in Europe, they can demand Islamic laws and regulations
be operative in the U.S. For example, already some communities in
the America. have pressured cities to change their noise ordinances
to allow for prayer calls. Interestingly, in his own country he was
jailed for seven months and then banned from Turkey in the 1980’s for
secretly teaching Islam to students. Then again in 1998 the Supreme
Court charged him with undermining the secular Turkish state and
seeking to establish an Islamic one. Consequently, he left Turkey for
the United States supposedly for health care, but remains there today,
operating his worldwide organization.
9-11 became a world-wide wake-up call. While the media focuses on
Ahmedinejad or Osama Bin Ladin, and the radical Al Qaeda movement,
a more deadly movement operates behind closed doors to secretly
infiltrate the highest government positions in many countries,
including the United States of America. The goal is to establish
a single Islamic regime. As an example of this outward gesture
with a secret agenda, Gulen gave an Iftar, the meal celebrating
the culmination of the Ramadan season, on Capital Hill under the
platform of tolerance and peace. Even they invited Hollywood actors and
actresses to attend. Will Gulen or his follower Prime Minister Erdogan
give a Christmas party at the parliament in Ankara or could he give
an Easter dinner at the parliament with parliamentarians supporting
this Christian celebration. The answer is a resounding, "No."
Today many Turks are more anti-American than ever. A thinking person
should ask that if Gulen– an Islamic educator, writer, and founder
of the worldwide Nur movement that began in Turkey– does not have
a political agenda, then why did he open so many schools in the world.
Why are interfaith dialogues held in the West? Shouldn’t they be
held where the root of troubles, oppression, and injustice are? One
of the most important characteristics of the American society is
to be tolerant toward others and to respect one another. The most
crucial pillar of the American Constitution is individual rights,
an inalienable right. Any one who has been to America knows that
there are mosques, synagogues, temples, churches, and chapels, so
every devotee is free to worship as they wish. America is not like
Turkey where the individual has limited forums to express freely
his true thoughts and concerns because of oppressive regimes and
where the Turkish government imprisons the individual in his own
conscience, rather than allowing open worship. It is a fact that a
Christian, Armenian, Kurds or Jew in Turkey has never been a first
class citizen; instead, they certainly suffer discrimination. Still
many Christians cannot even build their own church to freely worship,
and a few months ago three Christians were tortured and killed by
the Turkish nationalists. Yet, Gulen use the Dialogues as a ploy to
show the American people that Turks are reconciling with Christians,
Jews, Armenians, or Kurds. Shouldn’t interfaith dialogues be held in
Turkey, not in the U.S.? Today there are many Christians converting
to Islam. How many of them are being killed by Christians because
of their conversion? How many of them are being threatened or
required to hide their faith to save their life or the lives of
their families? However, many Muslims who convert to Christianity
still can’t freely or publicly confess their faith because if they
do, their lives are in danger. Therefore, interfaith dialogues are
urgently needed where the injustice is rampant, not in the U.S. Yet,
the American system not only allows these evangelical meetings but also
embraces them in its political correctness as an open-minded, tolerant,
and even intellectual act. Sadly, the eager American obliviously works
with Gulen to accomplish his goal of eradicating openness and tolerance
when he has a critical mass in the U.S. and establishes Sharia law.
Furthermore, when Pope Benedict visited Turkey, millions of the Turks
did not want him to visit their country, and some 25,000 took to the
streets because the Pope quoted Manuel II Paleologus, a Byzantine
emperor, in his 1391 passage about the Ottoman Empire before the fall
of Constantinople to the Muslim Ottomans, a statement that he later
apologized profusely for quoting. "Show me just what Muhammad brought
that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman,
such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached"
("Dialogue Held With A Certain Persian, the Worthy Mouterizes, in
Anakara of Galatia). Giving Benedict a cold shoulder, Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the foreign minister, Abdullah Gul-both
Gulen’s students– left to attend a NATO conference during the papal
visit, but at the last minute greeted the Pope at the airport before
leaving Turkey.
As another indication of it not being the West that needs tolerance
and dialogues, last year when 41-year-old Abdul Rahman, a post-Taliban
Afghan, converted to Christianity, he barely escaped the death penalty
that traditionally Islamic law decrees for apostasy. In considering
this penalty, any thinking inquirer must ask, "Is this kind of behavior
or attitude an integral component of America or the West or only a
historical behavior that goes back to Islam’s pre-modern era?" While it
is true that much killing has been done in the name of Christianity,
primarily during the Crusades, in modern America that same inquirer
would find it difficult to find even one case today. Yet, Interfaith
Dialogue has become an increasingly more practiced initiative within
the American and Western society, especially after 9/11. Ironically,
many Muslims have taken advantage of the tragedy and are being very
active. Many will agree that interfaith dialogues have an important
role in building peace within a society and in creating a window
for everyone to exercise their right to express their faith without
any threat. The interesting phenomenon, however, is that interfaith
dialogues are happening in the U.S. and in the West but never in the
Muslim nations. Again the intelligent inquirer must ask who needs
toleration and then the real question of what is the underlying
purpose of these initiatives in the U.S.
As mentioned, Gulen’s ultimate aim is to set up a theocratic
new Ottoman Empire, as those researching his organization now
demonstrate. He runs part of his activities in the open as legal
companies, institutions and foundations but others clandestinely
under cover. Gulen set up an organization or NGO as a tax free
organization funded by the American tax payers to promote his ideology
in America. He uses methods such as consultative committees composed
of his followers, continent Imams (North America), country Imams
(the U.S), state Imams (for example, Pennsylvania, the headquarters),
and finally city imams (Washington, D.C.). Covering the country like
a web with these companies, schools, cultural centers, interfaith
institutions, public and private organizations, and universities, his
organization is structured hierarchically like the armed forces. For
his fundamental clandestine activity, Fethullah’s group picks the
bright students from poor families, takes them into its isik eviler,
meaning house of light, with 5-6 inmates and educates them as well as
trains them as Nurcu militants. Each house and classroom comes under
the regional imam, who supervises the work of the house imam, usually
the oldest and most senior in maturity. Today Gulen sends thousands of
Turkish students abroad, mostly to the U.S. and West for post graduate
studies. Most of them have scholarships, and once they come to the
U.S., he urges them to marry American citizens, so they can stay in
the country. However, when you ask Gulen missionaries about this work,
none of them will tell you the truth, or they will admit that they
are spreading Islam, but Gulen has instructed them not to tell the
truth as part of their training on secrecy. He teaches his followers
to know the truth but not to tell the truth, having them memorize
Said Nursi’s principle: "It is your obligation to know the truth,
but it is not good for you to tell the truth every time, everywhere,
or everything that you do."
As part of his secrecy and caution, Gulen teaches his students to
lie because Islam legitimizes lying for certain reasons. If you are
at war, Islam permits you to lie to defeat the enemy, so he believes
that since they are at war with non-Muslims, until they defeat the
enemies, they should not reveal their secrets and can even lie. If
this clandestine global ideology for ruling the world became known,
it would be alarming to all citizens, because infiltration becomes more
dangerous than invasion since it goes undetected until it is too late.
Gulen’s movement began in a small Turkish town in the 1950’s with
about a dozen students but has expanded into a present-day estimate
of over 10 millions followers and in more than fifty-five countries,
including the rapidly growing initiative in the United States. Gulen
presents himself as a representative of peace through education,
and yet under his modernist robe he is a devout Turkic Islamist. His
charisma entices young intellectuals into his inner circle where they
are indoctrinated with his philosophy in numerous countries with the
purpose of advancing the goal of establishing a worldwide Islamic
state and eradicating secular governance.
An abbreviated rubric indicates a few ways that Muslim missionaries
are using NGOs as a platform as well as the American taxpayer’s money
to convert people to Islam and secretly to gain the power bring the
theocracy system of government.
Rubric for Interfaith Dialogue Trap in the U.S.
1999
Rumi Foundations Established to target academia
Working with many distinguished universities and professors all
over North America like Seyyed H. Nasr of George Washington, Sydney
Griffith of CAU, Esposito of Georgetown, Maria Dakake of GMU." Gulen
is the honorary president.
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April 19-20, 2005
John Hopkins University: The School of Advanced International Studies
(SAIS) and Turkey’s Journalists and Writers Foundation
"Islam, Secularism and Democracy: The Turkish Experience". Guild
establish by Gulen; Ongoing discussion
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November. 12-13, 2005
The Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious
Tolerance at Rice University and A. D. Bruce Religion Center University
of Houston
Conference on "Islam in the Contemporary World: The Fethullah Gulen
Movement in
Thought and Practice."
http://www.fethullahgulenconferen ce.org/
Niagara Foundation’s International Symposium "The Chicago Interfaith
Gathering
towards Interreligious Dialogue in the New Millennium: Finding Common
Ground." This Foundation is a branch of Interfaith Dialogues and as
such holds
regularly scheduled activities related to Gulen’s mission.
Octob er 3, 2005
Washington Post article "As the Holy Month Begins, Followers
of a Turkish Leader Interpret Islam and Holiday for Themselves"
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The Whirling Dervishes tour the US .
An event for his students to read from the Qur’an and to hand out
copies of his books.
2000
R ain Drop Foundation A non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated
to presenting, perpetuating, transmitting and promoting Turkish
and Turkish American arts and culture to diverse audiences and to
providing a center to enhance community programs. They are financed
by Gulen’s movement.
2001
"Ligh t Millennium formally incorporated in 2001 in New York as a
tax-deductible, not-for-profit organization. conferences Since January
2000, L.M. has been gathering the Turkish American culture together,
as well as aiming to convince a global community via encouraging
everyone to publish their ideas through website from ways of life
including: reducing television programs, special screenings and
organizing exhibitions, poetry events in general cultural events,
and also conferences.
The organization is led by Bircan Unver, who is against any kind
of discrimination in religion, ideology, culture, and nationality;
and puts all effort for embracing all ideas globally." This is a
publication company.
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Zaman newspaper Gulen’s newspaper first published in Turkey, but now
published in the US as well as in numerous other countries.
The Fountain Magazine Gulen’s magazine
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Herkul Organization his web page in audio; he is reaching through
his voice to his followers.
Ant Stores, Inc. online, mail order bookstore Ant Stores operates as
a division of The Light Inc located in New Jersey. The business sells
"a variety of different languages of books, mainly focused on providing
a platform for objective expressions of those belief systems, values,
perspectives, practices and traditions that have shaped the lives of
billions of people in the world for centuries."
Light Publishers, based Somerset, New Jersey The Light Publishers is
designed to combat the picture of Islam as the religion of 9/11.
The Pearls of Wisdom site Proposes to answer the basic questions of
humanity. "This site has been prepared mainly based on the works of
Bediuzzaman, Said Nursi and Mr. Fethullah Gulen.
Elite Media A 24-hour online magazine service. It provides a list of
all of Gulen’s magazines.
Fethul lah Gulen Website combines comprehensive information about his
life, his writings, and his activities.
This Way to Truth website Offers the viewer the opportunity to
"Discover Islam," discussing theological issues and topics.
Intercultu ral Dialogue Platform "an initiative from Turkey to build
a peaceful world through interfaith cooperation."
J ournalist and Writers Foundation Related to FG but under a different
name, so the purpose is the same in advancing his activities.
Abant Platform Organized by FG for writers and journalists. The
recently went to The Hague to petition the EU to accept Turkey as a
member. They use their voices to affect policy.
Dialog with Central Asia
The Intercultural Dialog Platform "steps in the media" To show that
love and tolerance bring peace. This forum offers quotations from FG
about how the meetings will bring harmony.
April 29-30. 2005
The International Conference of Islam. University of West Madison
"Islam and Dialogue." Gulen’s speech to the US based conference is
included on the site.
pers/Other/MFGulens-message-english.pdf
Blackwell Synergy Synergy publishes journals and articles devoted to
the study of Islam.
2005
"Bridges for Peace -Turkish Schools Opening to the World". Explains the
role of Gulen’s schools around the world. Turkish Schools Pioneering
Turkey
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Turkish immigrants to the U.S. 30,000 including many master and
doctoral level students and PhDs. (probably impossible to have a
count on the actual number of Gulen’s followers).
Ulker, Turka Cola Turkish businesses in America, among others Houses
or dormitories Gulen’s operations to teach his theology
March 21, 2004
"A Small School Run by Turks Takes the Stage" New York Times article
2006, 2007
Iftar dinners with Congressmen to celebrate Ramadan Co-Sponsored by
Senators and Representatives and The Rumi Foundation
Since 1991
Charter Schools Unknown number of Turkish schools out of the 2,700
in the U.S. since 1991 with 700,000 in 36 states and the District
of Columbia
Only a few examples: Arkansas’s Maumelle’s Academics Plus fired the
non-Muslim staff and teachers for some grades; Fulton Science Academy
in Alpharetta, Georgia; Friendship Edison Public Charter School,
Champaign Campus, Washington D.C, pairs with Turkish schools in
Istanbul and the principle received an expense paid trip to Istanbul;
Turkey-Run Elementary School in Marshall, Indiana; Charter schools
are supported in part by taxes but have no accountability except to
their own board
Hollywood Icons Chevy-Chase used to market Turco-Cola, Angelina Jolie
and Brad Pitt attended to Iftar at Capitol Hill in DC, following the
pattern in Turkey to use celebrities to promote their agenda
You Tube via
Video Arsivi
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Mary Project
Dinners in homes to attract candidates for Islam with the lure that
Mary is mentioned in the Qur’an numerous times and thus Gulen’s
followers have a commonality with Catholics.
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
